Get Creative from CBeebies
Art, music and stories are the focus for this new BBC app, with popular characters from the channel.
Sizzle & Stew
(iOS, £3.99)
A two-player cooking game in which you can experiment with different foods and kitchen gadgets to create meals.
Train Kit: Wild West
(iOS, £3.99)
Children lay out their track and scenery, then switch to a 3D view to ride around their creation.
Bandimal
(iOS, £3.99)
A musical composer with dancing cartoon animals that allows children to mix and match drum loops and effects.
Little Fox Animal Doctor
More cute creatures in this beautifully crafted app, in which children get to play vet to seven animals.
Hopster
A Netflix-style subscription service: parents pay £4.99 a month for ad-free TV shows, music and educational games.
Sago Mini Big City
Children can safely explore a city in this “digital playset”, from shopping in a market to recycling rubbish.
World of Peppa Pig
Swerve child-unfriendly YouTube parody videos with this official Peppa Pig app: videos, games and stories for £4.99 a month.
Nosy Crow Fairytales Bundle
(iOS, £19.99)
Nosy Crow’s fairytale apps are a treat for younger children and parents to read and play together.
Lexi’s World
(iOS, £2.99)
A new app focused on letters and words: children type words (from “pig” and “dog” to “balloon” and “yak”) to conjure those characters or objects into life on the screen.
Dr Panda School
Children create their own stories by dressing up a cast of characters and then acting out tales.
Azoomee
A child-friendly hub of games, videos and educational content, bundled into a £4.99 monthly subscription.
Toca Life: Pets
Like a digital film set: children manipulate characters and objects in five scenes, while recording their voice telling a story.
Teach Your Monster to Read
This app asks children to educate their own pet monster, a tactic that, alongside fun phonics games, aids their own development.
Khan Academy Kids
Known for its education courses for adults, Khan Academy has a kids’ version too: reading, writing and maths included.
Talu Space
(iOS, £2.99)
This playful collection of space-themed mini-games focuses on counting, matching, sorting, problem solving and logic puzzles.
ScratchJr
One of the best programming apps for children, based on the Scratch website. Kids aged five and up will enjoy learning to code.
Hey Duggee: The
Exploring App
Pre-school TV show Hey Duggee has its own app, with seven mini-games that test children’s matching, reaction and creative skills.
Squeebles Multiplication
Known as Squeebles Times Tables on iOS, this is an engaging maths app covering the basics of multiplication.
The Gruffalo Spotter
This official Gruffalo app wants to get children outside, exploring 26 Forestry Commission sites across England, using augmented reality for selfies.
Fiete Math Climber
One of the brighter maths apps: it has short exercises and characters to unlock with coins that can only be earned.
